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Disclosure, Dasein, and the Divine in Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree of Life’

Disclosure, Dasein, and the Divine in Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree of Life’

For Terrence Malick, “challenge” is a progressive verb. Tree of Life is a prayer that challenges us to see and think beyond all normative paradigms.

Haunted by Nothingness: Emanuele Severino’s ‘The Essence of Nihilism’

Haunted by Nothingness: Emanuele Severino’s ‘The Essence of Nihilism’

Ask anyone whether something can be born of nothing, and the reply will be decisive: No! Yet we think, speak and act “as if” this were not the case.
A Melancholic Way of Knowing

A Melancholic Way of Knowing

Melancholy, in its deepest truth, is not bereft of hope but rather relies upon it.

To Be Or Not to Be Isn’t the Only Question: The Nature of Being in ‘Synecdoche, New York’

High-Minded Bullshit